The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 15
Prince Houssain, the eldest brother, arrived at Bisnagar, the capital of the kingdom of that name, and the residence of its king.
Who acts: Houssain · What happens: arrive · To what, where: Bisnagar
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Houssain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Houssain | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Houssain | Houssain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 arrived | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 brother | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 brother | det |
| 5 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 brother | amod |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Houssain | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Houssain | punct |
| 8 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 Bisnagar | case |
| 10 | Bisnagar | Bisnagar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 arrived | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 capital | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 capital | det |
| 13 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Bisnagar | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 kingdom | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 kingdom | det |
| 16 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 capital | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 name | case |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 name | det |
| 19 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 kingdom | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 residence | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 residence | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 residence | det |
| 23 | residence | residence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 arrived | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 king | case |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 king | nmod:poss |
| 26 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 residence | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | Houssain Prince | Bisnagar | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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